Stardate 20011121.2141 (On Screen): Every diplomatic conference ends with a success -- but sometimes they have to look pretty hard to find something they can declare to be a success. In the case of this one, the success was that they agreed to meet again. (Hooray!) So what are they trying to figure out? What the terms should be of an international treaty about terrorism. That's the UN for you.
It is, of course, completely hopeless because there is no possible way they're going to get an international consensus on what, exactly, "terrorism" even is. For example, the representative from Syria contends, first, that people defending their own territory cannot be terrorists, but that occupying armies always are. In other words, Israel is terrorist but the Palestinians are not. Yeah, right. (discuss)
